A little while ago my partner and I visited Tate Liverpool and saw a Louise Bourgeois exhibition. I’d not really considered her work before and I was really taken with it.. Despite the tone of the exhibition emphasising her struggles in life I really loved the clearly playful and mischievous aspects of her work.
I bought a book about her work while there and in it I really liked the images of cages and frames - displayed in darkness. As part of my learning to draw in Blender I experimented a bit with this form and let it take me where it wanted.
The video above is a current iteration - much mutated. Somehow the metal frames reminded me of skyscrapers and then I guess images from various violent events in the last 20 odd years led me to trying to mutate the frames with simulated fires. I’m not entirely convinced by the results and perhaps this is an idea I’ll come back to.
The video seemed to demand some kind of soundtrack and I came up with the piece on the modular. Only 30 seconds in duration it’s more a mood piece than anything. Like absolutely everything I’ve made since I bought it - it features the Manifold Research Center Tetragrid
Below are a couple of earlier iterations
